GREG SULLIVAN: This AD wasn't pulling for his school

It’s probably not a first. This is a big world and things happen. But is anyone out there familiar with a situation where someone has simultaneously served as athletics director at one school and as a varsity coach at another school AND he/she ends up coaching against his/her school?

It’s probably not a first. This is a big world and things happen. But is anyone out there familiar with a situation where someone has simultaneously served as athletics director at one school and as a varsity coach at another school AND he/she ends up coaching against his/her school?

It happened this past Thursday when Westport played at Bishop Stang in baseball.

Jay Pacheco is the Westport AD. He is also the Stang baseball coach. Pacheco’s team beat Pacheco’s school (Stang 1, Westport 0). Pacheco said the matchup was tough for him. In fact he said “It’s tough,” and then repeated, “It’s tough.” Asked how he’d feel if Westport winds up missing a playoff spot by one game, Pacheco said the Westport AD had already taken care of that potential guilt trip. Division 3 Westport’s two games against Division 2 Stang are exclusion games, meaning they don’t count for tournament qualifying for seeding. Pacheco took care of that paperwork.

Stang and Westport will play again this seaosn, at Westport. Pacheco said he has told the Wildcats baseball players he hopes they go 20-2 this year.

---- With the promise that we will put Bill Mullaly and his wonderful world of Durfee basketball lists in the meat locker for a while, let us first present Mr. Mullaly’s Durfee basketball (from 1960 on) best shooters list:

---- The suspicion here is that Patrick Higgins is staging this whole Swansea library cat crisis in hopes of meeting Julie Newmar.

---- Oops. Made an organizational name mistake recently when I did a story on what I called the Somerset Berkley Regional High School Athletic Hall of Fame. That should have read Somerset High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Even though the high school itself became Somerset Berkley Regional back in 2011, the hall of fame has retained its original name. Founder, chairman and media liaison Doug Chapman explains.

“Two of this year’s inductees – Caleb Bliss and Jessica Gaffney – are from Berkley. But they played for, and graduated from, Somerset High School,” Mr. Chapman said in an email. “We plan to change the name when the first athlete, coach or team from Somerset Berkley is inducted. Since players and teams have to be out for 10 years, and we are only doing inductions every other year, the name change won’t happen for at least another 10 years. Then we will change the name. But athlete’s plaques will say whichever high school name they actually graduated from.”

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Technically, these HOFs should be called “athletics” (plural), not athletic, halls of fame.

---- My favorite inductee for this year’s Somerset High School Athletic Hall of Fame is Bill Hall. It has nothing to do with Bill himself, not by any means. It’s just the potential headline fun.

Hall into Hall. Hall gets the Hall Call. If Bill boasted a few more inches in height and the induction ceremony were switched to October, it would be Tall Hall Enters Hall this Fall.

---- The Fall River Junior Twilight Baseball League will register players today (Saturday), 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Boys and Girls Club on Bedford Street. For more info call Sneaker McDonald at 508-678-0349 or league prez Chuck Thibault at 508-472-0710.

---- Just a reminder for those looking to attend Somerset Berkley Regional High School baseball and softball games. The varsity baseball plays at the South Complex, just west of the South Elementary School on Reed Street. Softball plays at the Ashton complex on Olympic Road in the north end of Somerset. The easy way to get there is up Whetstone Hill Road, left on Windward Drive, follow the bend in the road, then right onto Olympic.

----- Help sought. Whom can you contact to find out when the herring are running in Middleboro, or at other area herring runs? The gentleman from the Middleboro PD I spoke to on the phone was nice, but he said the best bet is just to find someone in town who can go by and check. I was hoping to locate a herring officer.

---- Here’s a true herring run story. Many, many years ago several friends and I were at the Middleboro herring run, where the fish were running thick. One of my friends reached into the water and snagged a fish by hand. As he lifted the slimy, wriggling herring out of the water, he panicked and flung the fish away. It struck a nearby policeman in the head, knocking his hat off. The fish took one bounce back into the water. We quickly left the area.